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May 17 2019
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Tracking Trump On Immigration: Despite Focus, Many Ideas Are Stalled Or Blocked
President Trump is proposing a fundamental overhaul of the U.S. immigration system, including more border security and tougher standards for who could be admitted. It's the latest in a long line of White House efforts to reshape and restrict immigration.
But many of those efforts have been stymied by the courts, Congress, and the administration's critics at the state and local level.
NPR (Online News)Apr 30 2024
Headline Roundup
Netanyahu Vows Rafah Invasion as Hamas Considers US-Backed Israeli Ceasefire Proposal
Hamas is considering an Israeli 40-day truce-and-hostage proposal, described by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as “extraordinarily generous.”
The Details: While the ceasefire proposal was reportedly seen as a last chance to avoid an Israeli invasion of Rafah — a city packed with over a million refugees — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces
Reuters Associated Press CBNApr 09 2013
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U.S. diplomats wasting time with "crazy people" running North Korea: McCain
The U.S. has for decades tried diplomacy to deal with North Korea and Sen. John McCain is fed up with it.
Washington TimesJan 21 2018
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The aftermath of the "Gang of 19" meeting
As the bipartisan attendees of the Senate "Gang of 19" meeting took the results back to their respective leaderships, Sen. Lindsey Graham again held court with reporters, expressing hope that they'd achieved the necessary framework for a deal to end the government shutdown. He said, "We’re gonna get there — and if we don’t tonight — I’m really worried about where this thing goes because it’s
AxiosJul 16 2018
Headline Roundup
Trump and Putin Summit Underway in Helsinki
President Donald Trump began his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki today, calling the meeting a "great opportunity" to discuss trade, nuclear weapons, and China. Trump also blamed the US, rather than Russia, for past hostilities between the two countries.
Washington Post Bloomberg Washington TimesAug 20 2019
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Trump Is Coming for Europe’s Most Important Alliance
The fraying bond between Germany and France has held together in key moments. Can they stay united against the U.S. president?
In the end, they papered over the cracks.
After months of increasingly acrimonious sniping, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel set aside some of their differences last month, pushing through a deal on the next head of the European Commission. The
BloombergSep 26 2019
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Read the full text of the whistleblower complaint
The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released the declassified whistleblower complaint at the center of a standoff between the White House and Congress that led to a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
The complaint, which the administration initially withheld from Congress, was declassified with minimal redactions, and relates to Trump's July phone call with
NBC News (Online)Jul 27 2015
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Hillary Clinton is calling for a 700% increase in solar power. Is that realistic?
In the coming months, Hillary Clinton's campaign is planning to release a series of proposals for dealing with global warming. Her first installment came out Sunday and sets goals for major increases in US renewable power.
VoxJan 29 2021
Opinion
The First Post-Reagan Presidency
During Donald Trump’s presidency, I sometimes took comfort in the Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek’s concept of “political time.”
In Skowronek’s formulation, presidential history moves in 40- to 60-year cycles, or “regimes.” Each is inaugurated by transformative, “reconstructive” leaders who define the boundaries of political possibility for their successors.
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Michelle GoldbergAug 19 2019
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LA residents fed up with officials, demand change after homeless crisis spirals in city
It's the stale stench of liquor and human waste that hits you first. Then it's visual -- row after row of dirty tarp tents crammed together on the sidewalk next to piles of rotting trash and broken appliances. There are half-dressed, drugged-out shells of people wandering aimlessly in the middle of the street. Some curse at cars. Others just stare. There are fights, prostitution and rodent
Fox News (Online News)